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David W Ellis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME | $10,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $4,600 |
| DEEP WELL | $2,500 |
| HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SEA PINES FOREST PRESERVE FOUNDATIO | $820 |
| ARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA | $500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $400 |
| COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $250 |
| HARBOR VIEW FUN RUN | $213 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- MMMEMORY MATTERS9× · 2017–2025 · $27k · revenue +48%
- ACARTS CENTER OF COASTAL CAROLINA9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +31%
- HCHERITAGE CLASSIC FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SOSIX OAKS CEMETERY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $2k
- CDCOMMUNITIES DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2024 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Tandem health sc is a comprehensive primary healthcare practice dedicated to building a healthy community and improving the health, well-being, and quality of life of each person served.
Hampton regional medical center's mission statement is to provide: compassion, commitment, and excellence. every person, every time.
Mirasol health is a nonprofit, community-focused healthcare organization dedicated to honoring life through compassionate care and support for individuals facing chronic conditions, end-of-life, or grief. proudly serving beaufort, jasper,…
Our mission is to relieve suffering and improve the quality and dignity of life through compassionate hospice care at the end of life, palliative care for those with advanced illness, and through community education.
To operate a health care system providing medical excellence to the eastern region of south carolina and the extreme southeastern region of north carolina.
Since its founding, our mission has always stayed the same: the prevention of cruelty to animals. in 1874, charleston animal society became the first animal organization in south carolina and one of the first in the nation and has never…
It is the mission of continuecare hospital at hendrick medical center to deliver high quality healthcare emphasizing excellence and compassion consistent with the healing ministry of jesus christ.
Mcleod physician associates ii operates as a part of the mcleod health system. the mission of mcleod health is to improve the overall health and well being of people living within south carolina and eastern north carolina by providing…
To improve the health and well-being of eastern north carolina.
Informed advocacy relating to the cure, treatment and prevention for herpes simplex virus types 1 + 2 infections.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Savannah Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is District of Columbia Fire Dept Emerald Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HOPEFUL HORIZONS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds The Charleston Parks Conservancy ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSE ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds VICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Lowcountry · Heritage Classic Foundation · The Bargain Box · Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina Inc · Breedlove Foundation Im 020120186528 · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Ekedahl Foundation · The Marshall Miller Foundation · The Douglas & Tonyia Bolton Family Foundation · The Gleason Family Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Michael & Louise Lynch Charitable Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization David W Ellis Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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